How to connect Maxtor 7171 AT

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How would it be possible to get information out of this hard drive, I tryed connecting it to PC with OS Windows XP yet it seems not to be able to recognize it, it shows up on BIOS allthough as Primary Slave? Maxtor 7171 AT is IDE. Is there any better way to get information out of it?
 
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There are two jumpers to take note of. Refer to the drives label for locations.

J24 is the Cable Select (CS) jumper
J20 is the Master/Slave (M/S) jumper.

If the CS jumper is on then M/S is ignored and the drive must be attached to the end of the ide cable.
If CS is off (default) then the M/S jumper must be on for the drive to work in 'Single' mode. Again place the drive at the end of the IDE cable.


If you have two ATA/IDE drives on the same cable then either
1: both must be in CS mode
or
2: one must be in Master mode and the other in Slave mode. (CS Disabled on both)

Once you get the drive setup taken care of, post back if you still having issues 'reading' the drive.

 
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http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-drives-hdd/maxtor/7171A-172MB-3-5-SL-IDE-AT.html#.UhjtYNKJXg9

I tried both versions of the jumper setting none worked. Yet I found this link above, and if you take a look at points 5a, 6a (at the bottom in section General) it turns out you need to have MS-DOS :/, so what would be the way to install this without formatting the hard drive to Windows. I actually noticed my floppy drive changed it's shape it's asking for that floppy.
 
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You don't need DOS today.

Those drives were manufactured during the Windows 3.1 days. Win 3.1 sat on top of DOS, so you needed to install DOS before you could install Windows.

Does your drive show up in Device Manager? Disk Management?

Can a utility such as HD Sentinel see it?

Do you have any other IDE device on the same cable?

Are your SATA drives configured for legacy IDE mode in your BIOS setup?
 
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Yes I have 2 hard drives, they show up correctly in BIOS one as Primary IDE master (ExcelStore Callisto Jupiter) Primary IDE Slave Maxtor 7171 AT. Jumpers are set correctly. It doesn't show anywhere in OS not sentinel not Device manager/Disk management not in Add new hardware. Phoenix AwardBios CMOS Setup utility doesn't have Legacy IDE mode, it does show in documentation that it doesn't support HDD Low level format, how do I run this, if this is the case. Strangely it does show 2 floppy drives, when I actually have just one, when I'm searching for new hardware.

 
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IDE drives do not support low level formatting. They are internally preformatted at the factory and cannot be reformatted in the field.

Note that low level formatting is not the same as an OS format. Older drives (eg MFM, RLL) needed to be LLF'ed by the user, but this stopped when IDE drives were introduced. A LLF involves writing the track and sector information, marking bad sectors and assigning spare sectors to replace them. The user could also specify the sector interleave factor, the head skew and the track-to-track skew.

In short, LLF'ing is irrelevant today.

One other thing you could try would be to boot from a Ubuntu Live CD and see whether Linux is able to detect your drive.
 
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Are these drives attached to the motherbd using an IDE connection or sata connection (via adapter)?

If IDE do you have a second IDE port on your motherbd?
Most old motherbds had 2 for a total of 4 hard drives.
I'm asking because this is a real old harddrive that doesnt support the ata spec, only ide, so it might have to become master on the second port.
 
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Big thanks popatim that worked, sadly there's a new problem now...
When I scan for HDD @ Device manager it shows up for a second and than just disappears. Device status:Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. Code 45. I'll try to freshen up the HDD than try this again. Good tip there popatim, good thing i'm using my old comp for this :). If you guyz have any tips on how to make this work, feel free to share(yes I triple checked the wire).
 
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No tested it, yet after clicking OK, the drive does show up for a few seconds, than disappears again, I fear it's a physical damage. I did manage to open up it's properties before it disappeared I tryed clicking on Populate volume and it thre me an error: Volume information for this disk cannot be found. This may happen if the disk is a 1394 or USB device on a Windows 2000 machine. And in general there's a the Code 45 thing. Perhaps a different driver could be the solution? Maybe the harddrive is so old it works in ECP mode?
 
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